Anyone Can Ice a Celebration Cake

Anyone can create a celebration cake. It’s true: you don’t need any particular skill. With the wide range of instant icing, decorative accessories and ready-made cakes, even the most apprehensive cook can come up with a cake that will delight family and friends. It’s simple and it’s fun. We asked …

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Anyone Can Ice a Birthday Cake

If you think decorating a birthday cake is beyond your skill, think again. Anyone can create a cake that will please family and friends and it will only take you a few hours. Explore the online stores selling sugarcraft accessories and you’ll find a huge range of icings, colourings, cutters …

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Anyone Can Ice a Wedding Cake

The cake is the centrepiece of the wedding reception so to undertake to make and decorate a cake for a wedding is a challenge that many would decline. Yet a cake made with love and affection is so much more special than just another shop-cake. And it’s not impossible for …

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Classic Cakes from Yorkshire and Lancashire

Join us as we traverse the picturesque landscapes of Northern England, where a cornucopia of mouthwatering traditional baked goods awaits your indulgence. From the piquant Eccles cakes of Lancashire in the west to the irresistible Fat Rascals of Yorkshire, there is a myriad of treats to satiate even the most …

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How to Freeze Cakes and Cookies in Advance

Learning to bake is an art, but baking ahead is a skill. Freezing cakes and cookies can free you up to enjoy a special occasion or allow you to bake in a quiet time and still have a freezer full of great treats in a busy one, but knowing how …

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Sugar Free Toppings for Cakes and Cupcakes

Making sugar free cakes is definitely an art, and it can take a few attempts to get the right balance of ingredients to deliver a tasty, good-looking cake. Making tasty toppings for cakes and Cupcakes requires a little ingenuity too and the opportunities range from the very simple to the …

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Using Confectioner’s Varnish On Cake

Sometimes we see a cake so fragile and luminescent as to seem almost impossible to eat. Airy sugar creations leap away from the cake layers, shining as if dew has just fallen on them from the sky. This gleaming, apparently unsupported, edifice of decoration is achieved using confectioner’s varnish, which …

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Special Effects: Pastillage Cake Toppers

Pastillage is often confused with gumpaste, the sugar and gum traganath blend used to mould flowers and leaves for wedding cakes. While the two are similar, the techniques used in pastillage are quite different. Because it’s a form of Rolled Fondant that lacks the softening ingredients, such as glycerine, found …

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Making Fondant Roses

Constructing moulded fondant roses requires a certain amount of practise, but once you’ve perfected the technique, it’s a fantastic addition to your cake-baking skills and one that will win you many fans! Choosing Fondant Begin by making or buying some Mouldable Fondant. It’s easiest to start with white fondant as …

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Spun Sugar Techniques for Cakes

Sometimes the simplest things can have the greatest effect and spun sugar is just such a technique. The recipe is simple but the appearance of well-constructed spun sugar forms is magical and gravity-defying. Spun Sugar Tips and Hints There’s nothing easier than making the syrup for spun sugar work, but …

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